Previous owners include Admiral Baron Jonas Fredrik Örnfelt.
Count Johan Georg Lillienberg, who was Governor of Uppsala and President of the Appellate Court, among other offices, extended the manor substantially.
In 1810, Herresta was sold to wealthy Stockholm businessman Carl Adolph Grevesmühl.
Himself childless, he bequeathed the estate to a distant relative, Herman Paus, who was married to a granddaughter of Count Leo Tolstoy, the Russian novelist.
As of 1907, the estate included Herresta säteri and additionally 13 agricultural properties, totalling 15 mtl.